Assessment of cancer hazard from environmental pollution in Silesia

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 169-173

  Motykiewicz, Grazyna ^a   Perera, Frederica P ^b   Santella, Regina M ^b   Hemminki, Kari ^c   Seemayer, Norbert H ^d   Chorazy, Mieczystaw ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Columbia Univ Sch of Pub Health ^*  (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cancer risk assessment; genotoxicity of airborne pollutants; molecular epidemiology study

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030297191     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4274(96)03734-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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